The Department of Public Prosecutions is legally bound to investigate offences of torture committed by public officials and to take proceedings against the perpetrators of those offences.

Under the national public security system, the Ministry of Public Security has a nationwide database on possible perpetrators of offences who have been identified, prosecuted or sentenced which must be consulted on matters involving law and order issues.

Ministry of Public Order

Ministry of Public Order

With regard to police custody for terrorist offences, the legislature has granted relatively long periods of custody in view of the nature and gravity of such offences and in order to take account of the exigencies of investigations into such offences.

Two opposition leaders the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) s Nevers Mumba and United Party for National Development (UPND) s Hakainde Hichilema are currently on trial for various political offences covered by Public Order Act.

Source Ministry of Public Order

Book II, Chapter III of the Special Section of the Bolivian Criminal Code, entitled Crimes against public order , contains six articles designed to protect the country's internal security. Article 133 defines the relevant offences and states

Consequently, the penal provisions on arms offences that allow a sentence of imprisonment, which are currently included in the Firearms Act (1 1998) and Public Order Act (612 2003), would be placed in the Penal Code.

These offences therefore demand special effort on the part of the police and the Public Prosecution Service.

Cat n 2 Disturbing public order

Strengthening existing offences and creating new offences

The offences of imitating or using the public seals, as provided in articles 267 and 268 of the present Code

The Public Prosecution Service has national prosecutors who are experts in terrorism, terrorist financing, money laundering and other financial offences.

(b) For the protection of national security or of public order (ordre public), or of public health or morals.

All Federal indictable offences are money laundering predicate offences.

The current view is that all aspects of the offence are covered in the law, whether as road traffic offences, public order offenses, the use of weapons and firearms, etc., and there is no benefit in consolidating all the elements in one offence.

(l) To liberalize the system for maintaining public order

In addition to the responsibilities of the Public Prosecutor for investigating and punishing offences, the judicial authorities may, on the basis of reports from the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Central Bank, order the freezing of accounts and assets held in banks and financial institutions.

One P 4 and one P 3, Public Order Advisers

Terrorist offences

The Public Order and Police Law of 1900 was supplemented by the Public Security Preservation Law of 1925.

(b) Take such measures as may be necessary to permit its courts to order those who have committed offences established in accordance with this Convention to pay compensation or damages to another State Party that has been harmed by such offences and

Firearm incidents rose from 3 offences in 2002 to 11 offences in 2003.

(e) Economic offences

Several indictments filed during 2004 included organized crime offences as well as trafficking offences.

Public Relations Public relations is the process of providing information to the public in order to present a specific view of a product or organization.

In addition, information is gathered on possible offences that the individual participants have been unable to fully recognise on their own, in order to obtain an overview of these offences and to discuss how to deal with them using administrative and or criminal law.

Discriminating against women is clearly contrary to public order and essentially null.

In order to manage growing pressure on public finances, China must establish highly efficient public budget and fiscal restraint systems.

(c) Typology of offences

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This involves putting our public finances in order, which the fiscal treaty allows.

Public and private schools decided to suspend activities until order has been restored.

Extradition shall be in order only where the offence has been committed within the territorial jurisdiction of the requesting country, except where offences of international reach are involved.

Investigation of money laundering offences

New legislation on sexual offences

Its divisions hear, inter alia, hadd offences, qisas offences and criminal, civil, commercial, personal status and inheritance cases.

The Penal Code combines the offences of procuring and pimping in one article, even though they are separate offences.

States parties undertake to include such offences as extraditable offences in every extradition treaty to be concluded between them.

(b) To make these offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account the grave nature of these offences.

In order to encourage victims of sexual offences to come forward and make complaints, on September 2004, the Supreme Court ruled against the publication of the complainants' identities when relating to sex offences, following the conclusive acquittal of the accused (C.A.A 5877 99 Haim Yanos v. The State of Israel (28.09.04)).

What was sometimes called the liberal international economic order was the order of the day, and it was embraced by public opinion as well.

Lowering private and public consumption in order to boost private savings, and implementing fiscal austerity to reduce private and public debts, aren t options, either.

Indeed, while rudimentary at first, the public relations strategy of the M23 rebels has grown increasingly sophisticated in order to garner the public support.